Low Latency Fiber Communication System Equalizer Based on Photonic Reservoir Computing

We demonstrate a low latency fiber channel distortion equalizer that implements mainly of the equalization calculations in the optical domain, based on an integrated photonic reservoir computing chip. We discussed the equalization effect of the equalizer under different dispersion noise and optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) conditions. The bit error rate (BER) of the C-band with 25Gb/s on-off key (OOK) distorted signal in 25km standard single-mode fiber (SSMF) has been reduced by 3 orders of magnitude. By optimizing weights, this equalizer can adapt to link impairments. It can effectively equalize the distorted signals at data rates of 10–40 Gb/s over 25km in SSMF transmission. Furthermore, it can efficiently equalize the impaired signals after 5-40km SSMF transmission at a signal rate of 25Gb/s.